Integration Guide

Single-Item Payments – Buy Now Buttons
Managing Buy Now Transactions
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34 September 2008 Website Payments Standard Integration Guide
IMPORTANT: PayPal recommends that you turn Payment Data Transfer on when you
turn Auto Return on. With Auto Return on, PayPal redirects people to your
website from an alternative PayPal payment confirmation page that does
not display a View Printable Receipt link, so people cannot print PayPal
payment receipts. Payment Data Transfer provides the transaction
information that you need to let people print receipts from your website.
To learn more, see “Auto Return” on page 271.
z Payment Data Transfer – PayPal includes information about the completed transaction
when you use a return URL or Auto Return to send people back to your website. Use the
information that Payment Data Transfer provides to display a “thank you, print your
receipt” page on your website.
To learn more, see the Order Management Integration Guide
.
Managing Buy Now Transactions
Read the following topics to learn how PayPal helps you manage Buy Now transactions:
z Using Email Notices to Track Buy Now Transactions
z Using Recent Activity to Track Buy Now Transactions
z Using Transaction History to Track Buy Now Transactions
z Using Downloadable History Logs to Track Buy Now Transactions
z Using Instant Payment Notification to Track Buy Now Transactions
Using Email Notices to Track Buy Now Transactions
PayPal sends you email notices when:
z Payments are made.
z Payments are pending.
z Payments are canceled.
Generally, PayPal sends email notices to the primary email address of your account.
PayPal can send email notices to an alternate email address, such as to someone in your
organization who handles order processing or accounting. Add the additional email address to
your account profile. Then, use that email address as the one to receive payments when you
use the button creation tool on the PayPal website. Specify the alternate email address as the
value for the business HTML variable when you write the HTML code yourself.
For more information, see Step 10 in the instructions for “Step 1 – Specifying Basic Features
of Your Buy Now Button” on page 40, or Appendix A, “HTML Variables for Website
Payments Standard.”